Outside the entrance of the Uchiha underground lab, Shen hummed a tune while closing the door and then took a relaxed stroll around the village.
"Third Old Man, just wait for me to surprise you—hahaha!"
From afar, an Anbu caught that arrogant laughter.
She sensed his threat level had spiked dramatically and resolved to write a report later to inform the headache monster.
"Oh? Isn't that Guy's father?" A figure dressed in green spandex immediately caught Shen's attention.
Might Duy was doing bicep curls with dumbbells, radiating endless fighting spirit. From his energetic demeanor, it was clear he'd been training like this for quite some time already.
Seeing this, Shen immediately approached to greet him, "Uncle Duy, what are you doing?"
Duy completely ignored the "uncle" part and gave him a dazzling smile full of gleaming teeth, "Oh, if it isn't DJ Shen! You're up this early to train?"
"No, I was heading home to sleep actually—I've cooked up something new these past few days." As he spoke, Shen silently criticized in his mind.
Did this guy seriously have a lightbulb installed in his mouth? Otherwise, where did that shine come from at five in the morning?
Moonlight? Fine, let's go with that mystical explanation. If you don't buy it—then blame quantum mechanics!
"DJ Shen truly is amazing indeed! So during the next music festival—" Mighty Duy, clearly one of DJ Shen's biggest fans, enthusiastically continued.
"Cough cough… Maybe another time," Shen quickly changed the subject, since he'd long moved past lowbrow hobbies.
But strangely enough, Duy didn't look disappointed at all, "Here? This is near my house. DJ Shen, aren't you usually here training together with your father?"
Training? It seemed this green-clad fitness enthusiast misunderstood their father-son relationship.
Yet the strongest among the weary souls stuck in this world thought exactly the same way too.
If you threw Guy into the mix, wouldn't those three be the purest-hearted souls in the entire Naruto world?
Shen naturally knew they were close to Duy's home—shinobi from Konoha's civilian families usually lived on the village outskirts anyway.
Then why would our protagonist casually wander here? Naturally, it was to search for new employees!
Thinking about this, he immediately understood why those kings of pots had relocated the Uchiha clan here after the Nine-Tails attack.
Precisely to force both large and small Uchiha families—and even ordinary citizens—to interact more frequently.
Considering the Uchihas' famously stubborn and aloof personalities, they'd probably rub nearly everyone the wrong way eventually anyway.
"I'm just taking a look around the neighborhood. The Uchiha are planning to build a full-scale theme park right here in the village soon," Shen said, not forgetting how lately Nayou hadn't been giving him warm smiles.
"A theme park? Well..." Duy didn't seem particularly interested in such childish places.
He would have gotten excited only if it was a gym instead.
Shen merely responded with an encouraging 'wait and see' kind of glance—after all, the amusement park he planned to build might scare even adults away.
"By the way, DJ Shen, did your Team One finish that S-rank mission searching for the Sword of Kusanagi?"
"That's right, and both were recovered."
"That's truly amazing! In the future, I also want to complete high-level missions as excellently as you!"
"Keep pushing forward!"
Duy's energetic expression really moved Shen inside.
Knowing the storyline thoroughly, he naturally understood the other party's wish would never come true in this lifetime.
However, this didn't stop him from admiring that kind of spirit.
In the brutal world of shinobi, such a spirit—willing to burn brightly and protect comrades at crucial moments—was extremely rare.
Perhaps this behavior would seem utterly foolish to some.
But those selfish individuals would never understand that it was precisely these "fools" who brought hope into the world.
And it was exactly these people's actions that led Madara further and further away from his path toward peace.
Takako merely stirred things up slightly, and immediately these people launched a war.
But if he didn't exist, would this world truly avoid mutual harm?
Shen knew humanity would unite when faced with a common enemy.
However, in this Naruto world, where even the most fundamental powers originated from the Otsutsuki aliens, he dared not take reckless risks.
Therefore, he had no choice but to integrate various sciences from his past life and first strengthen Konoha.
As for the "nuclear peace approach" from his previous life, he didn't dare even contemplate it.
Setting aside whether this world could even create such an ultimate weapon, simply considering the two World Wars with over one hundred million casualties altogether, he clearly lacked the key conditions.
Only when all nations possessed nuclear weapons could an effective deterrent be formed!
But given the current shinobi world's level of understanding, handing them the technology would only accelerate the outbreak of wars.
Chakra's power had left people here still in a pre-industrial-revolution primitive society.
Therefore, without experiencing true massacre, these people would never come to understand the horrors of war.
Perhaps only after The Third Great Ninja War would the opportunity for "nuclear peace" arrive?
Shen now could do nothing but try to bring an industrial revolution to Konoha.
He had absolutely zero sympathy for those who schemed to initiate wars.
Instead, he always held immense respect for small figures like Duy and Shoda—insignificant yet possessing great willpower.
Putting those thoughts aside for now, Shen said goodbye: "Uncle Duy, I'll head out first."
He needed to find a good place here to build a theme park, and then go "placate" his good friend.
Still inside the underground chamber not far from Konoha, Madara closed his left eye, as silent as a corpse.
"Lord Madara, I'm back," White Zetsu emerged from the ground. He didn't find his creator's behavior particularly strange.
Just as usual, he carefully reported on that certain individual's situation.
Only then did Madara open his left eye.
"By the way, Lord Madara, this is the gift he gave me—the Sword of Kusanagi. He said to open it in a safe place." Holding the scroll, White Zetsu gestured toward Madara, seeking permission to open it.
Madara gave a slight nod, but soon found himself bewildered by the many large objects before him. "What is this?" he asked.
"It looks like equipment he used for the EDM Festival in Konoha. If I remember right, that's what it is," White Zetsu said, immediately setting to work connecting all the devices according to how the wires should go.
"Great, let me experience it then," Madara said, leaning back in the chair as if ready to fully embrace the charm of music.
Soon after, White Zetsu pressed the switch on a machine referred to by DJ Shen as an "amplifier."
"Welcome to DJ Shen's music channel. Press 1 for default playback or press 2 for random playback," came the voice of a DJ from the machines.
"Zetsu, press 1."
[Now Playing: Baby Remix]
Madara's left eye was instantly drawn to an animated egg-cracking scene displayed on one of the machines.
It showed a hand cracking open an eggshell, and from the flowing yolk and egg white emerged a cartoonish little figure who stood up.
"Two tigers love to dance. Be good little bunnies and pull up carrots."
Madara's left eye widened as he stared at the yellow cartoon character twisting hypnotically on the screen.
The pulsating rhythm made him leap to his feet without thinking.
Good grief, what a miracle! An old man close to a hundred actually jumped up from hearing a remix of a children's song? Well, this *is* the Naruto world—maybe it's not so strange after all.
"This music's seriously got me shook! I'm living for this!" Madara exclaimed, even mimicking the yellow character's movements, swaying his body along with the beat.
White Zetsu was stunned speechless.
In his mind, his creator had never shown such excitement before.
He dazedly watched as Madara got better and better at dancing, gradually understanding what DJ Shen often meant when talking about this utterly bonkers world.
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